Interrupts issues

[Volker]

On 12/23/-58 20:59, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Benjie Chen <benjie at addgene.org> wrote:
>> Hi FreeBSD hackers:
>>
>> I have two Dell workstations that I recently added FreeBSD 6.2 on. One
>> is a Precision T3400, one is an Inspiron 530. Nothing fancy. Installed
>> FBsd. Everything else is fine except both machines have interrupt
>> storm issues: one  core (both dual core) is 100% servicing interrupts.
>> On the Precision, it's irq20 atapci, on Inspiron it's irq19 uhci. The
>> other core is fine and both machines run well otherwise.
>>
>> I saw several recent posts on the net about some of these issues and
>> did not find a resolution. It seems unlikely that it's just a ata or
>> usb issue since both machines happen to have the same problem.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> Please provide the output of "dmesg" after a boot in verbose mode.
> This may help the maintainers to understand your problem and give you
> additional instructions.
> 
> Do you have any special reason to use FreeBSD 6.2? It is a rather old
> version, ...

6.2 has already been EOL'd in May.